One-off sync

[sdicandia]

Hi, I need to transfer files regularly from a remote machine to a local external hard disk: once transferred, they are moved and stored away, but they remains on the source machine.
Is there a way to "flag" the files already transferred so that they are copied (left to right) just once ?

Thanks in advance,
Sergio

[Zenju]

"Moving" is not directly supported by FFS. It can be emulated by two sync jobs, e.g. the first one syncs/copies using the "update" variant, the second one deletes the source files by using an empty input field as source. But I agree this is probably very clumsy.

[sdicandia]

Thanks, but I need to keep the files on the source machine, and just avoid to retransfer the ones I moved from the target.
Sort of Iincremental copy, with no subsequent check of existance for files already transferred.

[Zenju]

Okay, so you only want to sync the files which are new since last sync. You could try the "filter by timespan" and depending on how often you sync select for example a time span of one day if you sync the changed files at the end of the day.